Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
July 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 71
- Adam (5)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (15)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (5)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 23
- Lady in the Water (1)
- Metropolitan (0)
- Bonnie and Clyde (0)
- 24 Hour Party People (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Krrish (1)
- Predator (0)
- Lethal Weapon (1)
- Batman (0)
- Mary of Scotland (0)
- Cheyenne Autumn (0)
- Heading South (0)
- Spider (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Superman Returns (3)
- The Night Listener (1)
- Captain Blood (0)
- Sleepers (0)
- Snowcake (0)
- American Dreamz (0)
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (0)
- Demolition Man (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- MASH (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2)
- Superman Returns (0)
- Metropolitan (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (0)
- Art School Confidential (0)
- Brick (0)
- L’ami de mon amie (0)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (0)
- The Spiral Staircase (0)
- Bringing Out the Dead (0)
- Leave Her to Heaven (0)
- Alice (1)
- Fantastic Planet (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (2)
- Caché (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (0)
- Popeye (2)
- 25th Hour (1)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Halloween: H20 (0)
- Culloden (0)
- Evolution (0)
- Hard Candy (0)
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (4)
- Carnal Knowledge (0)
- Naked (1)
- Murmur of the Heart (0)
- Wet Hot American Summer (1)
- Superman Returns (2)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (0)
- Click (0)
- The Squid and the Whale (0)
- The Harder They Come (0)
- Up! (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
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25th Hour / USA / 2002
It seems that the United States is more regularly disparaged in recent films than it is honored, for its political activity as well as the easily derided personas of its Presidents hastily obscures its virtues. It is remarkable that in 25th Hour – one of the most responsible American films thus far this decade — both extols these virtues and disparages the country at once. Monty, a convicted drug dealer, pronounces and oppresses most every prominent ethnic stereotype in New York City in a tirade noticeably evocative of Do the Right Thing—he is channeling a larger, post-9-11 xenophobia. But the anger exhausts him. With nothing left to hate but himself, he begins to see the good in others, as well as his country. The final sequence in which he imagines a drive west with his father is uncommonly beautiful.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: VHS screener
07 Jul 2006 11:07 AM | Comments (1)
rob / 7 July 2006 / 4:46 PM / URL
This is one of my absolute favorite films of the past few years , and I’d even put it in my personal top twenty. It captures and reflects so much about our collective mentality since 9/11, and it seems the fact that the film is also at points confused and unsure of exactly what it is saying is what has made it less heralded than I think it should be. Lee’s focus here is in the confusion and self-examination, his profundity found in the flaws and erratic rhythms of a life full of unexpected rifts. The final sequence you mention is one of my favorite in any film – such an incredible marriage of both visual and verbal poetry. The opening credits sequence is a whopper as well.
People say that United 93 (or the very idea of any 9/11 film) was too soon, an idea I scoff at. Firstly, this is because most people think of films only as entertainment, not as an art form that can help a culture cope and come to terms with such a massive tragedy. My hope is that in time people will realize that Spike Lee was the first filmmaker to approach 9/11 awareness in film, and hardly more than a year after the fact. Why wait to begin the healing process, especially when film can help so much?